BERLIN QUOTES: BOBBED HAIR AND BROWN SHIRTS
WILLIAM L. SHIRER
“I miss the old Berlin of the Republic, the care-free, emancipated, civilised air, the snubnosed young women with short-bobbed hair and the young men with either cropped or long hair - it made no difference - who sat up all night with you and discussed anything with intelligence and passion. The constant Heil Hitler’s, clicking of heels, and brown-shirted storm troopers or black-coated S.S. guards marching up and down the street grate me, though the old-timers say there are not nearly so many brown-shirts about since the purge…”
From “Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent 1934-1941” by William L. Shirer; published in New York by Alfred A. Knopf, 1941.